Final Fantasy: PAX East's Preview Debut, Recapped

<h6 style="text-align: right;">Image credit: PAX East</h6>
<p>On Saturday, May 10th, the <em>Final Fantasy</em> preview season officially kicks off! Notably, a preview panel at PAX East in Boston, Massachusetts, showcases the first round of previews for the new Universes Beyond set. As such, we will recap it as the cards begin to roll in. You can find this stream on <a href="http://twitch.tv/magic"><em>Magic</em>'s Twitch channel</a> between noon and 2 pm Eastern time. But what do we expect to see when the panel gets underway? Read on!</p>
<h2>What <em>Final Fantasy</em> Previews Will We See?</h2>
<p>At this time, PAX East is already well underway. In fact, one of our writers, <a href="https://edhrec.com/articles/author/cooper-gottfried"><strong>Cooper Gottfried</strong></a>, is already on the scene.</p>
<p>Images from the convention have already begun to circulate around social media. We have seen oversized teasers of cards featuring <em>Final Fantasy</em> characters, both beloved and notorious alike. We have even seen images of a Chocobo wearing costuming that resembles <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Chandra Nalaar" href="#" target="_blank">Chandra Nalaar</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>'s clothing. Truly, the collaboration is now in full swing.</p>
<div id="attachment_152160" style="width: 429px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/chocobo-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-152160" class="wp-image-152160" src="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/chocobo-scaled.jpg" alt="The statue of &quot;Chocobo, Awakened Inferno&quot; from the play area of PAX East. Photo credit: Cooper Gottfried" width="419" height="559" srcset="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/chocobo-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/chocobo-225x300.jpg 225w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/chocobo-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/chocobo-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/chocobo-1536x2048.jpg 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-152160" class="wp-caption-text">The statue of "Chocobo, Awakened Inferno" from the play area of PAX East. Photo credit: <strong>Cooper Gottfried</strong></p></div>
<p>As for the question posed above, you'll have to wait for tomorrow's panel to get a first look at the cards previewed therein. Alternatively, we will have a panel recap ready for you tomorrow after 2 pm as well. Stay tuned for this development!</p>
<div id="attachment_152127" style="width: 755px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cloud-Midgar-Mercenary-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-152127" class="wp-image-152127" src="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cloud-Midgar-Mercenary-scaled.jpg" alt="A teaser of Cloud, Midgar Mercenary, a card from the upcoming Final Fantasy set. Photo credit: Cooper Gottfried" width="745" height="559" srcset="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cloud-Midgar-Mercenary-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cloud-Midgar-Mercenary-300x225.jpg 300w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cloud-Midgar-Mercenary-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cloud-Midgar-Mercenary-768x577.jpg 768w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cloud-Midgar-Mercenary-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cloud-Midgar-Mercenary-2048x1538.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-152127" class="wp-caption-text">A teaser of Cloud, Midgar Mercenary, a card from the upcoming <em>Final Fantasy</em> set. Photo credit: Cooper Gottfried</p></div>
<div id="attachment_152128" style="width: 755px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Tifa-Lockhart-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-152128" class="wp-image-152128" src="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Tifa-Lockhart-scaled.jpg" alt="A teaser of Tifa Lockhart, a card from the upcoming Final Fantasy set. Photo credit: Cooper Gottfried" width="745" height="559" srcset="https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Tifa-Lockhart-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Tifa-Lockhart-300x225.jpg 300w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Tifa-Lockhart-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Tifa-Lockhart-768x577.jpg 768w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Tifa-Lockhart-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https://edhrecstatic.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Tifa-Lockhart-2048x1538.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-152128" class="wp-caption-text">A teaser of Tifa Lockhart, a card from the upcoming <em>Final Fantasy</em> set. Photo credit: Cooper Gottfried</p></div>
<h2>More Previews Coming Soon</h2>
<p>As this is only the start of the <em>Final Fantasy</em> preview season, expect to see more and more reveals pop up in various places <em>after</em> PAX East as well. We are so excited that we can hardly contain ourselves, but contain ourselves we must. All things come to those who wait, dear readers. All in good time.</p>
<p>But in the coming hours leading up to the <em>Final Fantasy</em> panel, we'd love to hear from you. What are you most anticipating from the panel? What previews are you most excited about? And how about that darling red Chocobo? Feel free to let us know how you're feeling about all of tomorrow's upcoming excitement in the comments below!</p>


Final Fantasy Panel Livestreams May 10th At PAX East

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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Codie's Big Pile of Tokens</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Codie, Vociferous Codex" href="#" target="_blank">Codie, Vociferous Codex</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archidekt.com/decks/9223204/codies_big_pile_of_tokens">Archidekt Link</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Welcome back to another deck tech from this week's episode of <del>The Sunday Stream</del> Communal Brewing! Yes, you read that correctly. After using a generic working title of "The Sunday Stream" for the last year or so, we decided to finally give this series a name, and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Communal Brewing" href="#" target="_blank">Communal Brewing</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> was mentioned by multiple people in the chat.</p>
<p>After some brief deliberation, we felt like it was a perfect name for the show since we commonly take lots of suggestions from the chat throughout the deck-building process.</p>
<p>Another exciting part of this episode is a guest appearance from EDHRECast member Dana Roach, who stopped by to help us build around this challenging commander.</p>
<p>And hoo boy, is Codie ever a challenging commander to build around. Codie is a five color commander, which obviously gives us access to every card in Commander, and has an activated ability that essentially functions as <em>cascade</em>, which is neat.</p>
<p>However, the first line of text on Codie is what makes it such a challenge to build around.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>You can't cast permanent spells.</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Not being able to cast any permanent spells, even one you Codiescade into, is a massive obstacle to taking the most advantage of Codie, at least as it pertains to the typical flow of a commander deck.</p>
<p>So what exactly do we want to do with Codie?</p>
<p>If you watch the VOD posted above, you'll notice that we had a significant amount of trouble figuring this out ourselves. <a href="https://edhrec.com/commanders/codie-vociferous-codex">Codie's EDHREC page</a> contains the usual suspects we see with commanders that allow us to cast stuff for free, like "Spellslinger" and "Big Mana." But the third-most popular archetype is....lands?</p>
<p>And the fifth-most popular archetype is sacrifice? Apparently lots of people are having trouble figuring out what to do with Codie.</p>
<p>Our first idea was to do some stuff with copying creatures. Then we pivoted to the idea of a burn theme, using Codie's ability to Codiescade into multiple mass burn spells in the same turn, then reflecting that damage with <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Boros Reckoner" href="#" target="_blank">Boros Reckoner</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Brash Taunter" href="#" target="_blank">Brash Taunter</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
<p>After a relative lack of enthusiasm from the group about this strategy, we eventually got an idea from chat to build this deck backwards.</p>
<p>Instead of limiting the number of permanents in the deck and trying to get Codie out as soon as possible to cast a wide variety of instants and sorceries, we could make Codie's activated ability as efficient as possible by playing a small number of instants and sorceries and making sure that we can hit the <em>exact </em>spells we want to hit exactly when we want to hit them.</p>
<p>So what's the best way to approach that?</p>
<p>Dana suggested the idea of using Codie to cast multiple <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Overrun" href="#" target="_blank">Overrun</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> effects in the same turn, and use those to transform a board full of tokens into a full-on alpha strike to win the game.</p>
<p>So what's the best way to create a wide board state as quickly as possible so we can set up our win?</p>
<p>We decided to take inspiration from our <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds" href="#" target="_blank">Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> deck that we built back in April, which is a powerful token creation deck. I personally own that exactly Ghired deck, and can attest to its effectiveness in building big board states quickly.</p>
<p>Finally, we have our strategy. Codie is going to masquerade as a Naya tokens deck until we can play our commander and Codiescade directly into our win condition.</p>
<p>I'm not going to through every piece of our Naya tokens package, but you can check out the deck we're pulling from <a href="https://archidekt.com/decks/7364703/ghired_mirror_of_the_wilds">right here</a>.</p>
<p>Let's go over the cards that are unique to our Codie deck and are central to the win condition of the deck.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Haste Enablers</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Anger"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Fervor"></div></div>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Rising of the Day"></div></div>
<p>Since we're planning to wait to cast Codie until the very end of the game when we're ready to send our alpha strike, having a way to give Codie haste will make it much easier to pull off our strategy instead of having to wait entire turn where Codie will be vulnerable to removal.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei" href="#" target="_blank">Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is cheap to cast, and has a one-mana ability to give all creatures haste until end of turn, which is a very low price to pay.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Anger" href="#" target="_blank">Anger</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a classic piece of any deck looking to gain haste. While we don't have a great way to manually send this to the graveyard via discard, we should still be able to play it and have it destroyed in combat fairly easily.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Fervor" href="#" target="_blank">Fervor</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is another classic way to grant haste to your battlefield.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rising of the Day" href="#" target="_blank">Rising of the Day</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is simply a strictly better Fervor. No need to reinvent the wheel.</p>
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<h3>Card Draw</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Mentor of the Meek"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Symmetry Matrix"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Welcoming Vampire"></div></div>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Jeskai Ascendancy"></div></div>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Mentor of the Meek" href="#" target="_blank">Mentor of the Meek</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Symmetry Matrix" href="#" target="_blank">Symmetry Matrix</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> are both efficient card draw enchantments that will trigger regularly as we assemble our token army.</p>
<p>While it only triggers once per turn, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Welcoming Vampire" href="#" target="_blank">Welcoming Vampire</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is another creature that will keep us drawing cards as we create tokens.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Jeskai Ascendancy" href="#" target="_blank">Jeskai Ascendancy</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a <em>very</em> powerful draw engine. While it typically finds a home in spellslinger decks that can cast a handful of noncreature spells in a single turn and essentially draw a whole new grip of cards.</p>
<p>However, between our artifacts and enchantments, we have 23 possible triggers for Jeskai Ascendancy without counting our Overrun sorceries.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>The Overruns</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Overwhelming Encounter"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Overwhelming Stampede"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Titanic Ultimatum"></div></div>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Tromp the Domains"></div></div>
<p>All four of these cards essentially amount to "Until end of turn, all of your creatures get +X/+X and trample until end of turn" with some other extra payoff bonus.</p>
<p>Ideally, we are going to be casting either <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Titanic Ultimatum" href="#" target="_blank">Titanic Ultimatum</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Tromp the Domains" href="#" target="_blank">Tromp the Domains</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, or <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Conflux" href="#" target="_blank">Conflux</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> with our commander's activated ability, allowing us to automatically Codiescade into a second Overrun spell, producing a massive board state of gigantic tokens that you can swing to victory.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Closing Summary</h3>
<p>Despite the deck's fairly simple and straightforward gameplan at the end, building this deck was no simple task. It's very easy to get distracted by interesting interactions and lose focus on what you want the deck to do, leading to a messy final product that doesn't work well.</p>
<p>Turning Codie into any sort of a high-power deck is a very tall task, but our streamlined focus on building a huge board with a Naya tokens strategy and finishing with stacked Overrun effects via Codie's ability should make this an effective deck that can hang at a medium power table with ease.</p>


Communal Brewing Deck Tech (9/15/24) with Dana Roach - Codie, Vociferous Codex

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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Rukarumel, Ally Biologist</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"><div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Rukarumel, Biologist"></div></div></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archidekt.com/decks/9131656/rukarumel_ally_biologist">Archidekt Link</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Welcome to another deck from the Sunday Stream! This week, we're building around <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rukarumel, Biologist" href="#" target="_blank">Rukarumel, Biologist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, our first five-color commander, and a face commander of the Silvers precon deck from Commander Masters. However, if you're familiar with this series, you probably already know that this is not a Slivers deck.</p>
<p>However, do you know what creature type behaves a bit like slivers and is friendly to kindred-typal decks? Allies. Allies typically have an ability that reads as something to the effect "when (creature) or another Ally enters the battlefield, do (effect) X number of times where X is equal to the number of Allies you control." While not a static effect like we see with Slivers, Allies typically having ETB effects can be very powerful, especially if we're able to trigger them multiple times.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Core Allies</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Drana, Liberator of Malakir"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Hagra Diabolist"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Harabaz Druid"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Kalastria Healer"></div></div>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Kazuul Warlord"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Ondu Cleric"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Sea Gate Loremaster"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Turntimber Ranger"></div></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The first items on the menu are the core Ally creatures that we want to center our deck around. Typically, we like to build our decks around the fun stuff first and take care of the "veggies" later, but given that we're specifically building around an Ally core, it makes sense to solidify those first.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Drana, Liberator of Malakir" href="#" target="_blank">Drana, Liberator of Malakir</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is one of the few creatures in the deck that focus on combat damage-related buffs, but this one has the potential to turn a heavy swing into a full-on lethal strike, adding a +1/+1 counter to all of your attacking creatures after the <em>first strike phase</em>, meaning most of your creatures will get the buff before damage.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Hagra Diabolist" href="#" target="_blank">Hagra Diabolist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> has an ETB that drains an opponent for life equal to the number of Allies you control. It's simple and straightforward, but it is powerful enough to remove a player in one fell swoop.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Harabaz Druid" href="#" target="_blank">Harabaz Druid</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is an any-color mana dork that scales to produce more and more mana as you accumulate a board state.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Kalastria Healer" href="#" target="_blank">Kalastria Healer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is similar to <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Zulaport Cutthroat" href="#" target="_blank">Zulaport Cutthroat</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> (which is also in the deck), but generates that ability on ETB and when any other Ally enters, making it far more powerful than Zulaport in our Ally-focused deck.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Kazuul Warlord" href="#" target="_blank">Kazuul Warlord</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> essentially acts as a Cathar's Crusade for Ally creatures. Some people don't like the bookkeeping that can come with effects like this, but they're inarguably powerful.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ondu Cleric" href="#" target="_blank">Ondu Cleric</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is simple, straightforward life gain in potentially significant quantities.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Sea Gate Loremaster" href="#" target="_blank">Sea Gate Loremaster</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a nice, repeatable draw engine that scales to draw more cards as the game goes on. We can basically recreate the best part of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The One Ring" href="#" target="_blank">The One Ring</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> without the downside of the damage or the massive price tag.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Turntimber Ranger" href="#" target="_blank">Turntimber Ranger</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is half of a few infinite combo pieces that are built into this deck which eventually produces infinite 2/2 Wolf creature tokens.</p>
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<h3>Slivers</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Manaweft Sliver"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Gemhide Sliver"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Hatchery Sliver"></div></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I know, I know. I said this wasn't a Sliver deck, AND IT STILL ISN'T, but given that our commander has some nice built-in Sliver synergy, it makes sense to at least include a few good utility Slivers that can help us at any point in the game.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Manaweft Sliver" href="#" target="_blank">Manaweft Sliver</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Gemhide Sliver" href="#" target="_blank">Gemhide Sliver</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> both act as scaleable, any-color mana dorks that can pay off big-time later in the game if we have Sliver declared as a creature type on the commander or any of the kindred synergy pieces that I will talk about below.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Hatchery Sliver" href="#" target="_blank">Hatchery Sliver</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> Hatchery Slivers gives all of our Sliver spells (which would be everything if we have Slivers declared as the creature type for our commander), replicate, which essentially is an early version of the newer offspring mechanic from Bloomburrow, giving us copies of our creature spells by paying extra mana.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Kindred Synergy (and Turntimber Ranger Combo Pieces)</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Maskwood Nexus"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Conspiracy"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Reflections of Littjara"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Xenograft"></div></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In this deck, all four of these do roughly the same thing, which is to allow us to synergize our Ally and non-Ally creatures when Rukarumel is not on the board, or if she is and we need a different creature type declared. As long as we have any of these effects on the board with Ally declared as the creature type in the case of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Reflections of Littjara" href="#" target="_blank">Reflections of Littjara</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Conspiracy" href="#" target="_blank">Conspiracy</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Xenograft" href="#" target="_blank">Xenograft</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, Turntimber Ranger will create an infinite number of tokens since each new one results in an Ally entering the battlefield. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Maskwood Nexus" href="#" target="_blank">Maskwood Nexus</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is obviously a one-stop-shop for any creature type we'll need.</p>
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<h3>Fun Toys</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Zinnia, Valley&#039;s Voice"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Omo, Queen of Vesuva"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Intruder Alarm"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree"></div></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>As mentioned before, replicate and offspring both give us the ability to create token copies of any Ally we cast by just adding a little extra mana, so <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Zinnia, Valley&#039;s Voice" href="#" target="_blank">Zinnia, Valley&#039;s Voice</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a natural fit in here for us.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Omo, Queen of Vesuva" href="#" target="_blank">Omo, Queen of Vesuva</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a great fit for this deck, because her everything counters can simultaneously color-fix our mana base and give our creatures all creature types.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Intruder Alarm" href="#" target="_blank">Intruder Alarm</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a classic combo piece, and will potentially give us the ability for huge, explosive turns by untapping mana dorks and draw engines whenever a creature enters the battlefield.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree" href="#" target="_blank">Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a very underrated artifact that acts as repeatable ramp by stealing lands from our opponents. If we're able to build up enough of a mana base and have Maskwood Nexus or another way to make all of our creatures Praetors, then we could use the big ten-mana ability from Realmbreaker and dump every creature in our deck directly onto the battlefield, which is essentially an auto-win.</p>
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<h3>Closing Summary</h3>
<p>This deck is a really neat foray into five colors and a kindred strategy, both of which are very atypical to the decks we build. The Ally strategy should give us consistent value throughout the game while we accumulate value via all of our different ETB effects. This deck is a higher budget than we typically build, but we prioritized putting together a fun and creative deck over meticulously abiding by our $50 budget. If it's any indicator as to how fun this deck should be, Jason actually bought the deck from himself <em>while we were streaming.</em></p>


Sunday Stream Deck Tech (9/8/24) - Rukarumel, Biologist

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<p>We're back with another Sunday Stream deck tech, and this one hails from Strixhaven (well, technically March of the Machine, but he was on vacation) in the form of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Quintorius, Loremaster" href="#" target="_blank">Quintorius, Loremaster</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Quintorius, Loremaster</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"><div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Quintorius, Loremaster"></div></div></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archidekt.com/decks/9042374/quintorius_loremaster">Archidekt Link</a></p>
<p>Before you say anything, yes, we're aware that we build a lot of red on the Sunday Stream. But this is one is different! It's not just a bunch of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Threaten" href="#" target="_blank">Threaten</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> effects and goading and stuff!</p>
<p>Quintorius, Loremaster is a red and white commander that lets us exile noncreature, nonland permanents from our graveyard at our end step, then sacrifice a Spirit and cast those spells for free later on. A notable condition of this ability is that when you cast a spell exiled with Quintorius, it goes right back into your library, not into the graveyard.</p>
<p>So what do we do with this exactly? Well, my first instinct when I read "cast without paying its mana cost" is to try to cast as many big, splashy spells as we can and try to win the game through explosive turns.</p>
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<h3>The Other Quintorii</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Quintorius Kand"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Quintorius, Field Historian"></div></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Naturally, the other two versions of Quintorius, both the planeswalker <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Quintorius Kand" href="#" target="_blank">Quintorius Kand</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> from <em>Caverns of Ixalan</em> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Quintorius, Field Historian" href="#" target="_blank">Quintorius, Field Historian</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> from <em>Strixhaven </em>fit nicely alongside each other.</p>
<p>Kand's +1 ability creates a Spirt token which can be sacrificed to our commander's ability, and has a -3 which is a Discover 4 trigger, which will potentially cast a spell that can be exiled and recast with the commander later on.</p>
<p>Field Historian gives a slight buff to Spirits, but the ability we really care about is that he creates a Spirit every time one or more cards leave the graveyard. So, if Field Historian and Loremaster are on the field at the same time, we will automatically create the Spirit upon exiling the card that we can cast later by sacrificing said Spirit. Got it? Good.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Quintorius, Lootmaster</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Big Score"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Faithless Looting"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Thrill of Possibility"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Illuminate History"></div></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So what's the quickest way we can get those big, splashy spells into the graveyard so we can cast them for free later on? Well, red's looting effects are basically perfect for this. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Big Score" href="#" target="_blank">Big Score</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Faithless Looting" href="#" target="_blank">Faithless Looting</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thrill of Possibility" href="#" target="_blank">Thrill of Possibility</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> are all solid, efficient looting abilities that will draw us extra cards and allow us to discard our home run hitters into the graveyard.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Illuminate History" href="#" target="_blank">Illuminate History</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a Lesson card from Strixhaven that lets us discard as many cards as we like, then draw that many cards, and if our graveyard is sufficiently large enough, it too will make a Spirit token.</p>
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<h3>Quintorius, Field Enchanter</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Arcane Bombardment"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Double Vision"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Elspeth Conquers Death"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Rabble Rousing"></div></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>We like to run lots of enchantments in the decks we build, and they work particularly well in this deck since our commander is able to cast them for free from exile.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Arcane Bombardment" href="#" target="_blank">Arcane Bombardment</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> ends up in a lot of our red spellslinger-ish decks fairly often, and for good reason. The value Arcane Bombardment is capable of accumulating over the course of just a turn or two by copying spells over and over can't be overstated. It's an explosive game-winner in many decks that can take advantage of it.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Double Vision" href="#" target="_blank">Double Vision</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a pretty straightforward card that will copy the first instant or sorcery we cast each turn. This is obviously a huge boost to our commander's ability.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Elspeth Conquers Death" href="#" target="_blank">Elspeth Conquers Death</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is one of the strongest white Sagas that does something we care about doing in each chapter. Obviously we'd like to cast it for free with Quintorius, but this is a card that we're totally fine with hard casting. Targeted exile in chapter one, cost reduction in chapter two, and reanimating a creature or planeswalker in the third chapter make this a very versatile piece for us.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rabble Rousing" href="#" target="_blank">Rabble Rousing</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a personal favorite of mine. Even though the Citizen tokens it creates can't be sacrificed for our commander's ability, the Hideway ability gives us another method of casting something for free, and does that by creating a ton of tokens by swinging our own creatures. This deck should be creating enough Spirits that we can potentially take advantage even if we wait to swing until the turn we're able to meet the Hideway condition. If push comes to shove, it can also be a fail-safe win condition by simply building a huge army of token creatures.</p>
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<h3>Quintorius, Artifact....ster....</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Cellar Door"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Vedalken Orrery"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Wondrous Crucible"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Planar Bridge"></div></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Cellar Door" href="#" target="_blank">Cellar Door</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a fabulous piece of synergy in this deck. When we cast a spell with our commander's ability, that card goes on the bottom of our library. Cellar Door can take that card and put it right back in your graveyard to be exiled and cast again with Quintorius. Oh and it also makes a zombie, which is cool, I guess.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Vedalken Orrery" href="#" target="_blank">Vedalken Orrery</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is an artifact that needs no introduction. Being able to cast our big spells at instant speed is a massive advantage.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Wondrous Crucible" href="#" target="_blank">Wondrous Crucible</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is essentially another version of our commander's ability except that we don't have to pay extra mana for it. Sure, the card does get exiled instead of going back to the library, but at this point we're probably not all that worried about that.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Planar Bridge" href="#" target="_blank">Planar Bridge</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is another splashy artifact that will allow us to tutor any permanent in our deck directly to the battlefield. Seems good.</p>
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<h3>Quintorius, Doing Stuff</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Vicious Shadows"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Rain of Riches"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Alpha Brawl"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Hit the Mother Lode"></div></div>
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<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Vicious Shadows" href="#" target="_blank">Vicious Shadows</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a seven-mana enchantment that has the potential to deal a huge chunk of damage via creatures dying. If one of your opponents casts a board wipe and someone has a big board and a full hand, it could even be lethal damage.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rain of Riches" href="#" target="_blank">Rain of Riches</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> gives us a nice Cascade trigger when we cast our first spell that was paid for with at least one Treasure, giving us lots of extra value.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Alpha Brawl" href="#" target="_blank">Alpha Brawl</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a very funny card that essentially wipes an entire player's board via their creatures fighting each other. When used in tandem with Vicious Shadows, this could be a great way to knock down the Voja player that's gotten a little too out of hand.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Hit the Mother Lode" href="#" target="_blank">Hit the Mother Lode</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> has quickly become one of my favorite spells to resolve. It discovers 10 on cast, which is capable of casting anything in most decks, and then pays back and lost value for a low mana cast in the form of treasures. If we're able to cast this spell more than once, we're going to take over the game.</p>
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<h3>Closing Summary</h3>
<p>Quintorius, Loremaster is a fun spellslinger commander that appears in a color combo that doesn't typically see that archetype outside of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Firesong and Sunspeaker" href="#" target="_blank">Firesong and Sunspeaker</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. This deck is going to be more reliant on winning with accumulated value versus a specific strategy than most of our decks tend to be, but big, explosive turns should make this deck very entertaining to play.</p>


Sunday Stream Deck Tech (9/1/24) - Quintorius, Loremaster

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<p>We're back with another EDHREC Sunday Stream, where we've brewed another budget deck, this time around <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Xavier Sal, Infested Captain" href="#" target="_blank">Xavier Sal, Infested Captain</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, your One-Stop Token-Counter Conversion Shop.</p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Xavier Sal, Infested Captain</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"><div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Xavier Sal, Infested Captain"></div></div></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archidekt.com/decks/8954970/xavier_sal_infested_captain">Archidekt Link</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>This week, Jason and I ventured yet again into uncommon territory, this time the swamps (and islands and forests) of Sultai. Xavier has two tap abilities.</p>
<p>The first allows you to remove a counter (of any variety) in order to Populate, which means we create a copy of a creature token we control.</p>
<p>The second ability allows you to sacrifice a creature (either token or non-token) in order to Proliferate, which lets us add a counter of any type to any permanent on the board which that permanent already has. In short, Xavier turns counters into creatures, and creatures into counters.</p>
<p>So which direction is better to go? Tokens and counters are both strong strategies on their own, but we wanted to use Sagas to generate lots of passive value while we sacrifice those lore counters to Populate, triggering a Saga chapter again and letting us make another creature token.</p>
<p>We also have the option to sacrifice a creature to add a lore counter to every saga we have, letting us turbo through all of those chapter abilities and get our value back even faster. This deck ideally would function similarly to many <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Tom Bombadil" href="#" target="_blank">Tom Bombadil</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> decks which add and remove lore counters at will to get outrageous value out of Sagas.</p>
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<h3>The Sagas</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Binding the Old Gods"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Vault 87: Forced Evolution"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="King Narfi&#039;s Betrayal"></div></div>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Song of Eärendil"></div></div>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Binding the Old Gods" href="#" target="_blank">Binding the Old Gods</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is one of the strongest Sagas in the game, solves a lot of problems for us. The first chapter destroys any nonland permanent an opponent controls, which is obviously useful. The second chapter allows us to search for any forest and put it on the battlefield.</p>
<p>If we can remove a counter from Binding right after our ramp effect resolves, we can go right back to the first chapter and do it all again. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Huntsman&#039;s Redemption" href="#" target="_blank">The Huntsman&#039;s Redemption</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is another great ramp-based Saga that goes in this deck and behaves similarly to Binding when we can remove counters from it.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Vault 87: Forced Evolution" href="#" target="_blank">Vault 87: Forced Evolution</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a genre of Saga that plays nicely in decks that can remove lore counters, because it allows you to keep it on the board and keep that stolen creature for much longer than you ordinarily would be able to. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Phasing of Zhalfir" href="#" target="_blank">The Phasing of Zhalfir</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is another Saga in this vein that we can exploit.</p>
<p>If you've followed this stream for very long, you know that we love stealing other people's stuff. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="King Narfi&#039;s Betrayal" href="#" target="_blank">King Narfi&#039;s Betrayal</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Trickster-God&#039;s Heist" href="#" target="_blank">The Trickster-God&#039;s Heist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> both let us do silly things that give us access to cards and creatures from our opponents' libraries.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Song of Eärendil" href="#" target="_blank">Song of Eärendil</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Song of Freyalise" href="#" target="_blank">Song of Freyalise</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> are both huge value pieces that can help us keep our gameplan moving along via ramp and card draw, even if we aren't able to pull lore counters off of them.</p>
<p>Speaking of...</p>
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<h3>Removing Counters</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Goldberry, River-Daughter"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Clockspinning"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Thrull Parasite"></div></div>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Chisei, Heart of Oceans"></div></div>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Goldberry, River-Daughter" href="#" target="_blank">Goldberry, River-Daughter</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is functionally a duplicate of Xavier, but she doesn't need to sacrifice a creature to make it work. Getting her on the board may be even more valuable than Xavier himself.</p>
<p>Clockspinning is a repeatable instant with Buyback that allows us to remove counters from permanents and suspended cards. This is a great backup in case we don't have any creatures on board.</p>
<p>While it can't put counters on permanents, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thrull Parasite" href="#" target="_blank">Thrull Parasite</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> can remove them for the low cost of two life.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Chisei, Heart of Oceans" href="#" target="_blank">Chisei, Heart of Oceans</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is another trigger that happens each turn which will allow us to remove any type of counter.</p>
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<h3>Counter Payoffs</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Master Biomancer"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Gruff Triplets"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Herd Baloth"></div></div>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Scurry Oak"></div></div>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Master Biomancer" href="#" target="_blank">Master Biomancer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a classic Simic +1/+1 counter piece that makes everything on the board better just because they're entering the battlefield.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Gruff Triplets" href="#" target="_blank">Gruff Triplets</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a bit of a cult classic for the Sunday Stream, and it feels almost tailor-made for this deck. It automatically creates two copies of itself on entering, which are tokens that can be populated.</p>
<p>If we sacrifice one of those tokens to Xavier, every other copy of Gruff Triplets gets +1/+1 counters equal to the power of the one that died. I'm sure you can figure out the cycle here.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Herd Baloth" href="#" target="_blank">Herd Baloth</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> has the potential to make tons of 4/4 Beast tokens will getting very large itself. We can either use those as beaters, or as fodder for Xavier.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Scurry Oak" href="#" target="_blank">Scurry Oak</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a classic combo piece and this deck might be the first time this card has ever been used without an infinite combo in mind. Like Herd Baloth, this will generate lots of tokens to use as fodder for Xavier.</p>
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<h3>Battles</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Invasion of Arcavios"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Invasion of Fiora"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Invasion of Segovia"></div></div>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Invasion of Shandalar"></div></div>
<p>Battles?!? Absolutely. Some battles have very solid Enters effects and can flip into a powerful creature or enchantment, and we can remove counters from them without even attacking.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link side-by-side"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Invasion of Arcavios" href="#" target="_blank">Invasion of Arcavios</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> has an ETB effect that lets us search any zone for an instant or sorcery and put it in our hand, then flips into an enchantment that lets us copy instants and sorceries.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link side-by-side"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Invasion of Fiora" href="#" target="_blank">Invasion of Fiora</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> has an asymmetric board wipe as an ETB, then flips into Marchesa, Resolute Monarch, which can remove <em>all</em> of the counters from a permanent when she attacks, allows us to reset a Saga or flip another battle.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link side-by-side"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Invasion of Segovia" href="#" target="_blank">Invasion of Segovia</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is one of the strongest Battles and has an ETB that creates two tokens, and flips into a creature that lets us untap four creatures on our end step and gives all of our noncreature spells convoke, which is very strong in a deck that wants to create tokens.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link side-by-side"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Invasion of Shandalar" href="#" target="_blank">Invasion of Shandalar</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>'s ETB lets us put three permanents from our graveyard back into our hand, and flips into an enchantment that returns one permanent from a graveyard into your hand every turn.</p>
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<h3>Populate Targets</h3>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Jyoti, Moag Ancient"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Splash Lasher"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Tender Wildguide"></div></div>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Irenicus&#039;s Vile Duplication"></div></div>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Jyoti, Moag Ancient" href="#" target="_blank">Jyoti, Moag Ancient</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> creates a 1/1 Forest Dryad on Enter, which is essentially a land that we can make copies of. We'd love to make lots of copies of this.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Splash Lasher" href="#" target="_blank">Splash Lasher</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>'s ETB taps an opponent's creature and gives it a stun counter, which prevents it from untapping. The Offspring mechanic allows us to make a token copy, which could be Populated, and those stun counters can be Proliferated.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Tender Wildguide" href="#" target="_blank">Tender Wildguide</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is an any-color mana dork with that same Offspring mechanic, allowing us to create more and more mana dorks with our Populate ability. As a side bonus, Tender Wildguide can also tap to put a counter on a creature.</p>
<p class="cardDetailsOverlay_title__6Xo0r "><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Irenicus&#039;s Vile Duplication" href="#" target="_blank">Irenicus&#039;s Vile Duplication</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> makes a token copy of any creature you control, which will allow us to get token copies of creatures that we wouldn't ordinarily have access to.</p>
<p>While I'm not going to list it in its own section, this a Sunday Stream deck, which means that it gets a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Mimic Vat" href="#" target="_blank">Mimic Vat</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>if there's any possible way to justify it. Mimic Vat obviously makes token copies of the creature exiled with it and those can be Populated, which is clearly powerful.</p>
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<h3>Closing Sumarrrrrrrry</h3>
<p>Oh, you thought you were getting through this whole article without a pirate pun? You fool. Anyways, this deck has the potential to take some very interesting synergy and turn it into a win via lots of accumulated value over the course of the game rather than through any one explosive turn. However, if you're able to acquire a large number of Gruff Triplets, your opponents could be entering choppy seas.</p>


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Communal Brewing Deck Tech (9/15/24) with Dana Roach - Codie, Vociferous Codex

Sunday Stream Deck Tech (9/8/24) - Rukarumel, Biologist

Sunday Stream Deck Tech (9/1/24) - Quintorius, Loremaster

Sunday Stream Deck Tech (8/25/24) - Xavier Sal, Infested Captain